Hasan Ibn al-Haytham was a Mesopotamian (today, Mesopotamia occupies modern Iraq) mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age.
Referred to as “The Father of Modern Optics”, he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular.
His most influential work is titled Kitab al-Manazir, written during 1011–1021, which survived in a Latin edition.
Ibn al-Haytham was an early supporter of the principle that a hypothesis must be supported by experiments based on confirmable procedures—an early pioneer in the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists.
On account of this, he is sometimes described as the world’s “First True Scientist”. He was also a polymath, writing on philosophy, theology, and medicine.
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